svn commit: r381535 - head/lang/gcc5

Gerald Pfeifer gerald at pfeifer.com
Sun Mar 22 17:27:00 UTC 2015


On Wed, 18 Mar 2015, John Marino wrote:
>> Are these ports really called gcc50 and gcc47 in Dragon-land? 
> They aren't ports, they are the values of the CCVER environment 
> variable that seamlessly switches between the base compilers.

Ah, I see!

> The gcc version scheme change was pretty pointless (it could have 
> easily been 5.0.1, 5.0.2, 5.0.3, 6.0.0, 6.0.1, 6.0.2) but that's a 
> different discussion.

Isn't it essentially what FreeBSD has done a bit ago?  I do understand
the consequences you are facing, not that one alternative would have
been GCC 4.10 hence gcc410 and all sorts of problems with GCC 5.0 at
a later point in time (even keeping the versioning scheme).  Rock and
a hard place, I guess.

Gerald


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